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- An Illinois man, Kyle Svara, has been sentenced to 76 months in prison and three years of supervised release for hacking the Snapchat accounts of over 750 women to steal nude photos, which he traded or sold online.
- Between May 2020 and February 2021, he posed as a Snap Inc representative to phish access codes from more than 4,500 potential victims, locking victims out of accounts he compromised.
- Investigators also found about 530 images and 600 videos of child sexual abuse material in his account, despite his denials.
- His clients included Steve Waithe, a former Northeastern University coach sentenced to five years in prison in March 2024 for related crimes.
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